Olympics
 

I was feeling the need to lighten this forum up a bit, so...

Does anyone else LOVE the summer Olympics? Opening ceremonies are 8/13! :D

I'll watch pretty much any of it, but I really enjoy track & field, swimming, diving & weightlifting. And I love love LOVE watching gymnastics, esp. women's.

How about you? :wavey:

Paula

I love the Olympics, too. I could not be happier than when i am watching women's gymnastics! To me it's literally like watching magic. As magic as it gets, it is :laugh: I like diving, too. I always think in my head that some of the other ones are boring, but i totally get in to watching them anyway. Suddenly, I'm crying after the hurdles! :lol: You know what else is super incredible? The long jump! That sh*t is CRAZY! I watched the trials. But, yeah, anyway, I Can't Wait!

Amber

I've never been much on Olympics or any sports for that matter...

So I'm pretty disinterested in all this Olympic stuff...I mean I think it's cool, I'm glad they're there...and I think it's awesome when people win...haha..I'm just not into watching them :)

?!?!?!?!?!?!?! :distress: :wavey: Do you like magic? Then watch gymnastics! :D
Amber

No...
 

I hate the summer Olympics, I have always been a Winter Olympic addict...Give me the cold & I'm a happy guy!!!

Really? Wanna switch houses with me for a month? :laugh: I....NEED some summer! And I can't go to Chico every weekend. It's been, 70-75 here every day, and for the weekend and next week the temps are gonna be 67,68, maybe 70...I'm goin' nuts, i tells ya, NUTS :lol: It actually sprinkled this morning...which is a little better then the fog till 2:00 scenario, but it still was like that until 2:00. :shocked: HELP! HELP!
Amber "heat wave" G.

I like both winter and summer, but I like the winter Olympics even better. :woohoo:

I lOVE them!!!!!

BTW - I was an actor in the opening and closing ceremonies during the 96 Atlanta Olympics. That was a GAS. AND - it looks like I am going to the closing ceremony in Athens this year!!!!! :cool:

I like the equesterian events but they never make it to primetime!

Ever since I saw Nadia Comaneci in '76 I have loved watching gymnastics during the summer Olympics. It's pretty much the only part of the Summer games I watch. Swimming and diving maybe. But the gymnastics is the best.

Carol

I'm not a huge Olympics fan, though I admire what they stand for & I remember liking Mary Lou back in '84. Her spirit was easy to root for.

- Jake

i'm just glad that after 12 years it's finally held in a time zone that makes it watchable here. i'm not enough of a sports fan to be watching it in the dead of night.

We like to watch the Olympics. Softball is probably the biggest one to watch for our family (my sister plays). I like to watch the track & field and swimming too.

I'm really not into them. I prefer the winter olympics to the summer olympics. When I was younger, I was more interested in them than I am now. If I have time, I'll watch gymnastics but other than that, nope.

I went to the ones when they were here. I saw Princess Anne competing!!!!

Exciting! :blob1: :blob2: :blob1: :blob2:

Paula

I went to the equestrian events in Altanta but Princess Anne was not competing. Did she compete in the LA Olympics? I can't remember.

Wow, all these crushes on Princess Anne. ;)

- Jake

I forget which event it was, but somewhere I have a picture of her in it - I want to say it was jumping. I am unsure if she competed in LA. :cool:

What does an actor do for the olympics during the opening and closing ceremonies? I don't understand.
Amber

In Atlanta, over 1,000 people performed in the Opening Ceremony. The Closing Ceremony had fewer. Watch when the Athens games open. You will see what I mean.

Wow, you were one of the Cirque swinging guys? :eek: ;)

- Jake

No - I was not. I did a bunch of things, esp. in rehearsal, which took every weekend for like four months and WITHOUT pay :laugh: In the end, I opted to be an audience leader because of rehearsal scheduling problems. I had a blast. I met Gladys Knight (a total doll) - Gloria Estefan (FABULOUS) and a few others. I would not change it for the world.

Gladys does seem cool. I still remember her at the spa with Florence on The Jeffersons. :lol:
BTW, Gladys AND Gloria were with you? Were you recruiting them for their American Idol appearances? :rolleyes:

- Jake

yes but.........
 

I'm looking forward to it but I honesty don't think it was worth the lives of (officially 14 but unofficially many more) workers building the Olympic stadium and village in Athens.. Seems health and safety laws don't exist on Greek building sites. :mad:

I'm also not looking forward to the prospect of Great Britain getting no athletics gold medals this time. Seems the sport is suffering from a lack of government funding over the past decade and its catching up now. :(

Still heres to a great sporting spectacle..

Hey, will Henman be playing Olympic tennis? That's always a possibility of a gold.

- Jake

It's a possibility so maybe its a chance, I think the GB squads best hopes are in the water events, rowing and sailing etc.. Seems we are ok in the wet stuff but get beached on the land...

No - I saw Glady Knight in the tunnel underneath the field. She was there to do here rehearsal and I was carry some stuff and stopped to rest. She was incredibly nice to me. I saw Gloria in the 100 degree heat when she was standing on a float. She asked for water and no one could find any. So, I through her a bottle I had in my stuff. She was chatty and just very cool.

Since when do you have a bottle of water. Come on, what was really in there? ;)

- Jake

Pretty cool! I heard yesterday where her daughter, Zara (no prince or princess titles for Anne's kids) fell off a horse and was knocked unconscious over the weekend! I remember the same thing happening to Princess Anne when she competed in the Olympics!

Yeah I heard that too. Do you ride horses?